Oh I cant wait to see last nights one born every min! I'm really set on having a water birth and hear that she coped really well. Fingers crossed on the day I will be able to!!!!!
Going to watch after my antinatal pilates, so a nice evening of doing/watching baby fun!
I never watched the last series and caught up with some last night! Oh my word I couldnt stop crying! I'm glad neither of the women on there were screaming like last weeks! That terrified me!!!!

We have 3 boys and 3 girls names that we quite like, so hopefully when the little one comes we will be able to decided on one! My sister-in-law gave birth in October and he was namless for nearly a week!!! They ended up calling him Seth which was my all time fav name but HB doenst like so i was over the moon when they told me they had called him that!

Carrie I agree too! The worst thing is around here it seems to be people in thier early 20's falling pregnant on purpose just to get a council flat and they even admit it! I hate that news papers never show the young mums that earn a honest living, and have given a stigma to young couples having babies!

xx

Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:24 pm

Carrieoke7

Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:20 pmPosts: 0Location: Wakefield, UK

Yeah it does really bug me because like until my contract ended and I chose not to carry on working because of the pregnancy I had a well paid respectable job, we did have a council flat but we paid for it ourselves and now private rent a house which we pay for completely ourselves and we actually planned our little one, it wasn't a mistake or a one night stand, it was something we both wanted and felt ready for. Bugs me to be in the same category as people who get everything paid for them and don't even want to try and help themselves!

Can you tell by my ranting how much it annoys me? Hahaaa.

The sister of the girl having the water birth was sooo annoying! If that was my sister I would have said "look either in and deal with it, or out!"

The names situation has gotten worse. Within 3 days we've gone from one definite name to 3 names to 10 o.o I like so many! haha. So difficult!

xx

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Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:45 pm

harrietradmore

Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:40 amPosts: 0Location: Harlow Essex

I dont blame you for getting annoyed hunni, I get it all the time. Im 23 and people still look at me and judge so frustrating as I am so over the moon and just puts a downer on the day.

Oh was she, I will have to get my sister to watch it and warn her not to be like that as she is going to be one of my birthing partners! I have had to organise 3 people as birthing partners, my hubby, my sister and my best mate who is more like a sister as my hubby goes away the weekend before my due date and I really dont want to go into Labour and be on my own! Better to be safe than sorry I suppose!

Good luck with the names, I'm sure when you meet your little one you will know which one to go with.

Is anyone having any uncomfortable pains in the top of thier bump? Mine is doing my head in, I think 'HOB' has taken to squishing my tummy as the pain is usually around when I eat. Make me feel really nauseous and puts me off eating :cry:

xxx

Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:56 am

ruthmuir

Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:45 pmPosts: 0

Hey Harriett,

I'm getting really bad pains under my ribs as if i'm all squished. Sometimes it's quite bad when i eat and sometimes it's not. But rather than having a big breakfast/lunch/dinner, i now have smaller portions and then eat snacks throughout the day when i feel hungry. I find if I try and eat a main meal now that i'm in agony for ages after it.

I'm really struggling to bend over now and not from having a bump, but it feels like he has lodged himself just under my boobs. I feel like i'm squashing him even leaning over to pick stuff up. I do try and nudge him back down but i just get a kick as if being told to leave him alone!! Little bugger.

I've had people asking me for years when I was going to have kids, I got married at 21 and I think people just assume once your married your going to pop them out but i was too busy enjoying myself! All my friends always said I would be first as I was married first but out of all us I am one of the last to bite the bullet. But if I wasnt married at 21, I bet peoples reaction if I had fallen pregnant would of been different!

Carrie my friends sister had her little boy in Germany and she had two names picked and couldnt decide which one she wanted. So the midwife decided to pick one of the two names for her instead!!! Sharon being the little mouse she is let her and now has a little boy called Drake! I'll be making sure that I have a definite name chosen for when I go in or who knows what he would end up with! And i'll be making sure that i also go to register him as dont want hubby thinking he's funny and giving him some random middle name

xx

Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:14 pm

harrietradmore

Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:40 amPosts: 0Location: Harlow Essex

Hi Ruthmuir

I think I will try eating little and often like you said. Fingers crossed hey! My bump was really low for ages but over night s/he has decided to riggle up under my ribs! I ahve a very odd shapped bump, its big but totally flat on the front. Hubby thinks there is a table in there with the little one! Hopefully it becomes nice and round soon!

Im the same as you I got married young at 20 and as soon as we were married the pressure was on to have kids from everyone around us. Bobby really wanted them ASAP too so I was quite out numbered. We always said if it happened by some mirricale as i was on the pill for mirgraines then great if not then were not going to stress about trying for a while. Just so happens I fell ill, taking antibiotics and hey presto im a mumma! We were both so shocked but i can honeslty say i'm over the moon super excited! Probally the best thing to happen to us!

Your thing about the cousin and making sure you go to register him made me chuckle. My best mates mum had her brother prem and as he was in hospital for a long time they came and registed him there. Unfortunately they came while she was in the toilet so the dad jumped at the chance and called him Steven after himself!!!!!! WHOOPS!

xxx

Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:42 pm

Carrieoke7

Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:20 pmPosts: 0Location: Wakefield, UK

Haha I would be so gutted if my OH did that! I would be mad at him for years!!

Our little one was up near my ribs for a while and when the midwife felt him out at my 28week appointment his feet were right underneath them but thankfully he's figeted his way down a little now and is laying across the bottom hurrah! I do tend to get a lot of heartburn though after meals now.

I wanted my bump to become all nice and round and now it is its made my belly button stick out and it looks sooo strange!!

I'm taking my names list to my mums tonight to get her reaction to them and see what she thinks. She'll probably hate them all haha.

Yeah I have 3 birth partners sorted because my mum is one of them but if she can't get out of work it will be my sister, and also the other way round ... if my sister has things to do e.g. pick up her daughter from school or can't find someone to look after her daughter then hopefully my mum will still be there. OH is definately going to be there but I know he'll be rubbish with blood and things and he says he's going to hate seeing me in so much pain so I need someone who had their head screwed on and who's been in the situation before haha.

my baby seems to be sitting on my bladder and it really uncomfortable, I am nervous 2 and my 2nd baby to but im due on 12th april

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Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:15 am

Carrieoke7

Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:20 pmPosts: 0Location: Wakefield, UK

Hey Stacey, congrats on the pregnancy!

I'm the opposite .. I'm nervous cause I don't know what to expect! It's scaring the hell out of me! haha.

Now that its getting closer its all I can think about and all I can do to calm my nerves is go through my birth plan and my lists of things I need to get and make sure I've not left anything out - although I'm sure I probably will have done. I'll probably check them again after writing this because I've got myself worrying again now haha.

xx

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Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:46 am

harrietradmore

Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:40 amPosts: 0Location: Harlow Essex

Hey Stacey! My EDD is the 18th so not far off of yours! How are you finding it?

Urgh went for my blood test today and although the lady was lovely she has really hurt me and already given me a bruise! Nice dead arm for the rest of the day :cry: Glad that there are no more untill little one comes along!

I'm starting to get really nervous too now, I'm such a whimp with pain. I hardly hold it together when I have a migraine attack let alone having a BABY!!!!! Looking forward to seeing my midwife next week and booking up my anitinatal classes to help calm my nerves!
I recon im going to be a blubbering mess when im in labour!

xx

Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:15 pm

first_timer

Joined: Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:41 pmPosts: 0

hi all,
I'm due 24th April with my second and can say that 2nd time round it is taking much longer to sink in that I am having a baby! with 13 weeks to go with my 1st everything was ready and I felt prepared, this time I haven't done anything.

If anyone wants any advice on what to get for hospital bag I have a few tips which friends passed onto me and I was really grateful to them,

Also I rubbed perineum oil on my bits (from mothercare) for about the last 6 weeks and I had to be cut in the end, so it may help prevent tears but if they can't get baby out and have to cut you it makes no difference. Before labout the thought of being cut really scared me - but at the time you honestly don't care, you'll let them do anyting to get baby out. And labour can;t be too bad as I am actually looking forward to mine!
I don't know where they pick those in one born every minute from, they are extremes - either people who seem to have no pain or people who are screaming in agony. I'd say I was somewhere in the middle!

Hope everyone is feeling well - get lots of rest in now - I know it's a cliche and everyone says it, but honest relish those lie ins as you will crave them soon enough!

Ps got my 3d scan tonight, can't wait!

xxxxx

Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:09 pm

Carrieoke7

Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:20 pmPosts: 0Location: Wakefield, UK

Any tips for the hospital bag would be brilliant! I have my list but I see a lot of different tips on alternative things to take and was also wondering if there's anything that I probably won't need ... Like things you took for your 1st and ended up not using at all.

Doing my bag shopping on Monday so trying to get the perfect list together before then haha

xx

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Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:03 pm

ruthmuir

Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:45 pmPosts: 0

I'm the same as you Carrie, I hear so many people say different things about your hospital bag that I would end up with everything and the kitchen sink in their!! I'm going hospital bag shopping over the weekend, the one thing that I have been putting off as then it all becomes a bit of a reality then that this little person is making an appearance at some point.

First_timer, please let me know how you get on with your 3d scan!! I got a leaflet through the door for one and I have been thinking about it but wasn't sure if it was worth the money or not as our 5 month scan was so clear! I've seen some on google images and they freak me out a bit but I was wanting one done to see if he's going to end up with my honker or not

Harriet I attended my last ante natal class today and they were really good. A lot of the things that are discussed you can read in the baby books but it's totall different having someone explain it and if you have any questions to ask, or something you dont understand from the book the midwife will always have the answer. The class today was about breastfeeding and it's one thing I am nervous about is making sure he latches on properly, but feeling a bit better now after being to the class.

Stacey did you have a bad experienece with your first baby or is it because you know the pain that you'll be in! I think I'll just remain in denial that this is happening to me as the more I think about it the more I will panic myself about it! I got a tattoo on my foot last summer and was shouting obscenities at getting that done as it was that sore so who knows how I will cope with the pain of having a baby. The one things that scares me is how big he may be. They always say to go off your birth weight and your partners. I was 8 pound 6 and my hubby was 8 exactly so may be a big baby!! My little sister was 10pound 12 when she was born! As long as he's not anything like that xx

Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:26 pm

t33

Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:44 pmPosts: 0

I wasnt scared with my first baby just laid back and i was looking forward to birth and in labour my oh thinks i done that well as it was also a natural birth no pain relief my oh reckons it never hurt at all but im nervous as it kills being in labour i totally aint organised for this baby and bubba will be here in 11 weeks

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Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:11 pm

Carrieoke7

Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:20 pmPosts: 0Location: Wakefield, UK

I hope the birth weight thing is true as I was only 7 pounds and my sisters were 7lbs5 and 7lbs9 I think. But then again my OHs sister said that her friend had a huge baby (around 9lbs I think she said) and had no tears or cuts whereas her LO was 7lbs4 (maybe 5) and she had to have quite a few stitches so it seems not to make much difference!

Its already become a big reality for me Ruth haha. I'm that worried that I'll go into labour early that from this weekend onwards I'm carrying my notes with me EVERYWHERE. I need therapy or something!!! Haha.